Sole-edge-burnishing tool



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W. GORDON.

SOLE EDGE BURNISHING TOOL.

No. 399,609. Patented Mar. 12,1889

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WILLIAM GORDON, OF MELROSE, MASSACHUSETTS.

SOLE-EDGE-BURNISHING TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,609, dated March 12, 1889.

Application filed July 14, 1888. Serial No. 279,984. (No model.)

To (tZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM GORDON, of Melrose, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sole-Edge-Burnishing Tools, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to reciprocating tools for burnishing the edges of boot or shoe soles; and it consists in a tool composed of sections detachably and rigidly connected, said sections having their adjacent edges rounded off to form a groove extending across the burnishing-face of the tool at right angles with the direction of movement of the tool. The object of said construction is to give the tool a corrugated surface, whereby the burnishing action of the tool is made more rapid, the detachability of the sections enabling the sections to be separated for the purpose of dressing off their sides to deepen the groove when the same has been made shallow by the wearing away of the operative surface of the tool.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a side view of my improved bu rnishing-tool. Fig. 2 represents a section on line at, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a view of the burnishingface of the tool.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, (0 represents a sole-edgebnrnishing tool having the edge-burnishing face 2, the rand-lip 3, and the longer lip i, which serves as a rest for the face of the sole.

In carrying out my invention, instead of making the burnishing-surfaces of the face 2 and lips 3 at continuous or uninterrupted in the direction of the movement of the tool, I divide the body of the tool at right angles with the direction of its movement into two or more sections, .9, which are rigidly and dctachably connected by a screw, 25, or other suitable means. The adjacent edges of said sections are rounded off to form grooves or corrugations it, extending across the lips 3 4 and face 2 of the tool. By thus corrugating the tool I divide its burnishingsurface into short sections, each of which sinks into the edge of the sole more readily than a tool of the same length having an uninterrupted burnishing-surface, so that the tool exerts more friction on the sole-edge. At the same time the rigid connection of the sections prevents either from indenting the sole-edge so deeply as to wear it, as might be the case ifa single tool were employed of the same size as one of the sections.

The separability of the sections enables them to be taken apart and conveniently dressed off at their edges to deepen the groove, when such deepening is made necessary or desirable by the wearing away of the burnishing-surfaces of the tool. IVhen the sections are separated, their edges may be readily acted on by a suitable reducing-tool, while if the tool were not made in separable sections it would be a very difficult matter to originally form and to deepen the grooves it, extending as they do across the lips and face of the tool.

I claim A sole-edgeburnishing tool having the rand-lip 3, sole-edge-burnishing face 2, and lip or rest 4, and divided across said lips and face into two or more sections, which are rigidly but detachably connected, and are rounded along their meeting edges to form a groove, to, extending across the burnishing face and lips of the tool, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 11th day of J nly, A. D. 1888.

\VILLIAM GORDON.

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C. F. BROWN, A. D. HARRISON. 

